Hot Wheels that shoulda been a redline custom

[@randybock82]

Great job!

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thank you very much

[@seanrobison1782]

Beautiful Chevrolet!!!

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thank you very much!

[@anibalbabilonia1867]

Wow! Im impressed! Hot wheels should have come out with a redline version of that casting back in the 60s-70s! That's an awesome reendition of a classic redline hot wheels! Great job😎👍

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thank you very much. I had a fun time creating this. What if? Style car. There will definitely be more

[@brentgoff5217]

This is a great idea, making your own redline cars. Awesome job. People are more apt to seeing Hot Wheels than Matchbox.

[@davesempire8287]

Love the color. Looks great.

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Orange is my favorite. Thanks

[@Outlawstar79]

That is a siccc paint job and I am loving that vinyl top..it was the best part 🤩

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Hahahaha. Sorry about the vinyl top. It looked so good without it ,I decided not to do it.thanks for watching

[@Outlawstar79]

I agree, just wanted to give you a lil grief about the top. Your idea was sound in make it a "redline"

[@MatchboxResurrection]

Great job with the wheels. Also the paint job is faultless. Absolutely love it. The monkey at the end lolololol

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thanks my fellow Rockin Brother! That monkey taught me how to ride motorcycles lolololol

[@wwkdiecastmore5647]

Nice custom restore, thanks for sharing!...Bill

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thank you Bill! It wasn't too elaborate this week as I was talking a breather after the double build offs Last weekend.

[@TisBestinDiecast66]

Inspiring video, what a superb result. Since being lucky enough to find 5 redlines for 50 pence each ( about 35 cents) I have looked at getting more, especially the sweet sixteen and have found the prices to be exorbitant. So make your own redlines that's the way to go ' Top Job George ' I like it a lot.

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Hey Bruce! There's Alot of Recastings as I like to call them that have been put out in the last 10 years that I have experimented with making my own redlines. There's a Twin mill and a King Kuda on the shelves in the mainline junk right now that are worthy of redlines. I have already done a king kuda and it turned out wonderful Do you have a Ford J car for your sweet 16 yet? If not email me.

[@TisBestinDiecast66]

No I don't thx George I will be e-mailing you today when I have finished the chores haha@@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192

[@danrussell3439]

Great Job

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thank you very much. I wanted to do something that was cool that anyone could build on a budget.

[@TONYSDIECASTRESTOS]

holy shit, thats incredible. It has to be one of the best customs I have seen on youtube, the paint is amazing and the detailing.....

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Really? Thanks buddy. I never would have believed that it would be this popular?

[@bigsiss9153]

Would have never thought of that! Making your own bearing wheels

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

I got tired of spending like 10.00 a set of reproduction ones on Ebay that were always the wrong length. Maybe I started a new trend.lol

[@bigsiss9153]

@@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192 send this idea to baremetal and diecast resurrection man lol

[@deepjunkgarage]

That's a great looking Chevelle, you're right, it should have been a redline. You built a really cool car at a fraction of redline money ! 🍻

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Hey Buddy! I'm suprised nobody has done this. It's so easy, and looks cool as shit. Love the old original deep dish wheels. Hope all is well with your back buddy

[@deepjunkgarage]

@@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192 thank you, my back is coming along slowly. I sent you a message on your van video. I did a copo Corvette that looks pretty close to the one you just did. I wanted to let you know so you don't think I'm copying your homework. LOL ! Strange thing is I have a 67 chevelle in line to build. 🤣🍻 We are all going to have to get together on what's in our build lineup ..... people are going to talk. Lmao !

[@RedlineGarageHW]

Shoulda been a redline, I couldn't agree more! Looks great!

[@RedlineGarageHW]

Sorry for the double post, lag hit hard lol

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thanks buddy. I didn't think this would be as popular a concept as it was.im adding this to my monthly builds

[@RedlineGarageHW]

@@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192 I have some old black walls I am planning on making redlines in the future, people love this concept!

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

@@RedlineGarageHW very cool! I'd love to see them when you do them

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

@@RedlineGarageHW I will now. You just got a new Sub.👍

[@nathancook1404]

That Hot Wheels Chevy Redline Custom looks nice! You did a good job!

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thank you very much! I hope it will inspire some viewers to try their handiwork at building one themselves since its not hard to do

[@Mr77Malibu]

Man,how cool is that! Looks like it could be a Redline Sweet Sixteen for 2019 model.

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thank you very much buddy. Unfortunately hot wheels doesn't make anything this cool anymore .I wish they did though .

[@revzillo]

That is an awesome orange paint job , great job H 👍

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thanks Jerry, its really fun throwing spectraflame over a metallic base on these customs. Always has a great result

[@rudygarcia7981]

Perfect color for that car. Amazing job!! Keep the videos coming😀

[@chesterswingjr9796]

Great job!!! I love this casting, as well as the recent 70 Chevelle, 66-67 Nova, 68-72 Nova, 67 GTO, and a few other Muscle cars from that era. You should get some of those and do the same treatment on. They would look awesome!!! As soon as my garage is done, I'm going to start doing some of these myself for my own enjoyment.

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thank you very much. I too really like those castings too. I have plans to do some more, i just try to switch it up ,but you will definitely be seeing more "shoulda been a redline" check out the second video to see what i did to a opel diplomat if you like this video. If you need any tips when you get set up to do customs. Feel free to ask

[@chesterswingjr9796]

Hodge's Hot Wheels and diecast - Thanks, I'll probably be setting everything up in a couple weeks. I don't think I'll start a channel up, I'm just going to do it for my own enjoyment, but you never know!! I've built quite a few custom pulling tractors, and 4x4 custom pulling trucks. I haven't seen to many people building them, so I'm going to build more of those.

[@pauliestoychest-diecastcar1100]

Awesome! Love it 😍! Mr. T posse at the end there is hysterical 😭 He is like “What! Dang!!!” 👍🏼

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Hahahaha Mr T is in all My Videos. He has been hanging out on my workbench for many many years since my days of scale r/c crawler building. He was intended to be a crawler driver, but I just couldn't put myself to cutting up a vintage A Team action figure. So now hes a Diecast spokesperson.

[@pauliestoychest-diecastcar1100]

Hodge's Hot Wheels and diecast well you have a new subscriber/fan 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

@@pauliestoychest-diecastcar1100 thank you very much. I hope you will enjoy my diecast adventures

[@tuxpowerpc]

Wow, that's one of my favorite year Chevelle's. You did an awesome job!

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thank you very much

[@MrVolvobloke]

Beautiful ! I look forward to seeing more in this range. Thanks for posting.

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thanks, I hope to do at least one a month if people like them.

[@OneSixtyFourRevival]

Oh lord! I think you're on to something. "Modern Redline Custom Builds". I'm sure others have done some but it would be a great Challenge segment.

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

I didn't think it would have been this popular? It was so simple and cheap to build. I'm going to do one every month for a while because there's a few i think are worthy of making redlines

[@OneSixtyFourRevival]

@@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192 you're right on that. I've got some 69 Chevelles , Darts, Coronets, Torinos in modern casts that I'd love to make Redlines.

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

@@OneSixtyFourRevival Give it a shot. The viewers seem to like it

[@KrakenSeattle]

Excelente Auto y perfecta la elección del color Felicidades 👍

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thank you very much.👍👍👍

[@sdekoker74]

Cant agree more with you. With all the tech and R&d youd think Hot wheels would do some epic tampos but most look like a 5 year old with a sharpie designed them. Thats why i design decals and custom my own

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

I am so disappointed with hot wheels. I was a collector for over 25 years and used to be able to find really cool mainline cars up to about 6 years ago. From there on it's been less and less hot wheels I bought. Now I don't even waste my time thumbing through the mainline anymore. They need more cool designers like Larry Wood ,and fire the bunch they have in there now

[@sdekoker74]

@@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192 There are some nice designs but the fantasy stuff is weak, Wheres the days of the twin mill, the Deora and the Red Baron, now we get chrome dinosaurs on wheels

[@Tiger351]

Wow that car came out awesome! I have to agree with you about modern Hot Wheels, most of the castings look great but get ruined with hideous paint jobs/tampos. Probably benefits anyone making customs, but for everyone else it's hugely frustrating trying to find a nice display model off the shelf.

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Its very frustrating for me too. Up til 5 yrs ago or so they were putting out great mainline stuff. Now I don't even look at them .Bring back the good designers like Larry Wood. Fire the bunch they have now. It's a big disappointment

[@Tiger351]

@@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192 Agreed, 2013 was the last time I bought a mainline, I've only bought a couple of the retro entertainment series since then.

[@leeshepherd5669]

Its because they put them out for kids most of all They dont care if adults buy them ..But to this day most HotWheels are mainly toward kids Adults has totally messed up collecting Redline Hotwheels ...They do it to feed themselves and to live off of to fatten their bank accounts. Do what they want,,,,,Its their money,, But collecting Hotwheels like I did back in 1968 has been ruined by the adult collectors.. I have over 300 great redlines... I just race them on my tracks .. Never sold any of them....There are some rich adult collectors that has so many redline cars that they ll die with them...Just leaving them to someone to just toss or trash them

[@kirbybrady3397]

Looks great and I agree that it's fine! It's for you so every purist can eat mud!

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Hahahaha. The purists probably don't like any of these custom,restoration channels . This is how I get the collection I've always wanted. Lol

[@NavyVeteran1776]

Amazing custom. I was looking forward to the black top like you said in the beginning but this is amazing nonetheless.

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thank you very much.

[@davidbeeson1178]

Very nice my friend, if you put that in a case, I would never know that it wasn't a real redline. Great job on that project, it looks amazing, love the orange specter flame. I agree, matchbox has been putting out some pretty amazing cars. Hot wheels does get a little silly with some of the cars. The red chevelle they did this year looks good. Thanks for sharing you thoughts and the customization, you did a fantastic job.

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thank you for the kind words. I was a collector for over 25 years,and I feel like Mattel has let me down after all these years. All the real riders I've seen are really nice castings with the DUMBEST themes I've ever seen on a hot wheels. So disappointing

[@davidbeeson1178]

I feel the same way, I only buy them so my son can take the wheels off of them to put on something else.

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

@@davidbeeson1178 me too.

[@hestheMaster]

What a brilliant transformation! 😎Can't believe it's the same vehicle that looked so kiddy like at first. I wonder what an American ford station wagon from Matchbox (31) would look like with redlines? Did I cross a line asking that question? Sorry but I'm no purist either. If it works good, if not, back to old drawing board. As for the Matchbox classic cars from the good old US of A I have been experimenting with a way to put whitewalls on their tires. Some cheap dollar store legos that have round extrusions on the back seem to be a cheap way of making a round circle. A dab of white paint on it and carefully pad it down onto the good side of a tire and well almost good. I'm still trying to get even coverage. It is like pad printing so once the tire is evenly covered in white I'll be golden. Hey, maybe red paint could be the way to go for a custom redline Matchbox vehicle ! LOL.

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Hey buddy, thank you. No lines crossed here . I will have to look that car up. I think I have one. Great idea for the white wall stamping. This is what this hobby for me is all about. Experimenting with different castings and techniques.

[@cxcmb]

very nice! i've only seen one other person convert a recent casting into a redline before, it's something i wish others would try.

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thank you. Its easy, and a FRACTION of the price. Still looks great in a showcase

[@williamwittersjr.5569]

Awesome job on that !!!

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thanks for watching

[@USA1-g9i]

Very nice and nice color choice as well

[@billbushman6686]

I use straight pins for axles. You can get a box at a fabric store. They even come in different gauges.

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

I didn't think of that, thank you for the tip. I'm still perfecting the styrene bearing. Hopefully by next month I'll have it straightened out

[@rodney1818]

I use paper clips yeah

[@Classic_Diecast_Garage]

Nice job that turned out amazing

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thank you very much. These are a good starting point for someone who wants to get into doing customs. Very affordable to build

[@tellege08]

Cool Modification!

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thanks, I wasn't sure if people would like it or not.

[@robertshemory5094]

Beautiful Chevelle. I tried to make my own axles the same way. Haven't figured out how to do peen the ends of the axles over.

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

I will be showing my upgraded axles in a future video this weekend. I got it figured out and I'll be showing it step by step

[@michaelhodge8963]

Beautiful work, I agree, that shoulda been a red line. Gives me ideas on some of my collection if I ever get a camera and start customizing them. Was up in your area last week making a delivery, actually Jessup MD. Keep up the good work...

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Hey buddy, thanks for watching. Yea you were only about 45 minutes away. Believe it or not. I run this whole channel from my cellphone. Including filming.

[@michaelhodge8963]

@@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192 cool, what video editing program do you use? I've looked at a few but I've never really messed with any of them and my phone is not an iPhone or anything it's just a newer Samsung

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

@@michaelhodge8963 I use "My Movie " it's a free Ap on my android's Play store. I have Samsung android phone.

[@OutlawSpeedShop2001]

Nice! That model was in my line to do in the next couple weeks. Lol. I think I will wait . This came out amazing! And I agree, it should have been an original redline!

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Shit buddy, I'm sorry. I just wanted to scale it down this week after last weekend. Lol.I have been wanting to showcase this idea to see if people liked it. Love the old Deep dish redlines. And it's a cheap way to get redlines if you can't afford originals.

[@rodney1818]

I agree with you everyone I redo is customized and brightly colored

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thank you very much. I actually painted this the first time with my createx candy2o paints in a "Brandywine candy", and a black vinyl top. But after it was done ,it just wasn't doing it for me being too dark a color. So back in the stripper it went . And I painted it spectraflame orange.

[@DT99race]

Great idea for a series George, this car turned out awesome! I've built a few similar "redlines" like this too. Another idea for the large rears is to use the front axle from an old sizzlers car with large capped wheels. I've had success re-using the old 1/8" Redline delrin bearings by crimping the ends of .020 piano wire with a large pair of wire nippers, which flattens the end before cutting. Loved the last image, all I can say is "he hates these cans" lol 😆 Oh yeah, love your STP intro music too 👍

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

I got a handful of capped medium wheels from an old ar casting set in a lot of cars I bought. So I'm slowly using them to do resto redlines

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

The Jerk is one of my favorite movies.

[@DT99race]

@@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192 Today I found out what my special purpose is for. Gosh what a great time I had. I wish my whole family could have been here with me. Maybe some other time as I intend to do this a lot. 😆

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

@@DT99race hahahaha!!! "Always Remember, Lord loves a working man,Don't trust Whitey, Go see a Doctor and get it cleared up".....

[@crimson4502]

Totally Awesome ! 🌟🏆 🌟 Do more "Should have been" restomods

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

I'm glad everyone is enjoying this .wasn't sure how it would be received. I'm going to more "should have been " in the future .thanks

[@goodnough1]

Nice buddy

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Hey Brother! Thanks

[@lannyfloyd6131]

Great job bub .

[@Classic_Diecast_Garage]

Looks awesome

[@tredici72]

Top job mate! ..she looks the tits in that gorgeous orange, this "Shoulda been a Redline" series is a beaut idea, looking forward too seeing more👍

[@revzillo]

When l first saw this car, l thought it was a '67 Pontiac GTO .... but then l noticed the front grill and non stacked headlights 😄..... but l think the 67 Chevelle shared the same body shell at the time

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

They hav alot of similarities. Both were built on the GM, A body platform .I love both, but ive always been partial to Pontiac.

[@redneck7381]

Cast your own bushing using alimlite high stregth 3 silicone and RC3 resin

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thanks, I will definitely look in to that.

[@GrumpyOldMan3313]

Sweet!

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thanks

[@martinchristain4964]

You should be on the hot wheels board of directors. They are so out of touch. Beautiful job!

[@2ahdcat]

Damn it... I have the same turntable everyone else has (this proves I'm not original and I had $9 to spend, lol) At any rate... I agree with Your choice

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thanks buddy

[@2ahdcat]

@@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192 I really should make a video of my... 1960s Lesney Matchbox Jeep Gladiator redline. Yup, You heard me... redline, lol

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

@@2ahdcat That jeep Gladiator casting is Badass! Timerider made a cool 4x4 custom with one. I wanna take an old lame 70s /80s matchbox Superfast and give it some coolness eventually.

[@spc4ag]

Man dats cool !

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thank you very much

[@Classic_Diecast_Garage]

What happened to the black vinyl top

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Hahahaha. I thought I wanted to but after I saw it painted it was too pretty without. Thanks for watching

[@baronvontourettes]

Bro - do some old matchbox. There are some cool old castings.

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

I did . Last weekend

[@baronvontourettes]

Hodge's Hot Wheels and diecast I know - do some more it should’ve been a Redline

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

I will next month. Gotta mix it up a little

[@salomebarrera8752]

Great job awesome Where did you order the quick silver from

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thanks. I got it off Amazon

[@CallMeMrStopmotion]

Well this was a great morning treat. Maybe you could do the '69 Corvette Racer or the '65 Mustang Fastback. What other cars do you plan on doing?

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

I just did a 69 Copo Corvette racer in Pearl candy blue a few videos ago. As for the upcoming Shoulda been redlines builds....You'll just have to "Stay tuned "🤣🤣👍

[@CallMeMrStopmotion]

@@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192 I just saw the video. The car was awesome. P.S. I wonder how a Redline station wagon would look.

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

@@CallMeMrStopmotion Hmmmm. That's a good idea. I'll look

[@davemuckeye]

I thought there was going to be a matte black 'vinyl' roof...? Sweet paint job regardless... 👍🏽

[@Francisrenato]

Man why you don’t show us how paint the body?

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

I'm sorry , I've been trying to cut my overall times down on my videos since they seem to run quite long. I have been trying different things since I'm relatively new to the video making.

[@rodney1818]

But I do put the exact same wheels on almost all of them

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

I like the deep dish redlines

[@PhantomDragonEternal]

Great mod, but ya left out the satin finish roof you were talking about. The car still looks great, though!

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Sorry about that. After I'd shot the orange spectraflame it looked so goodike it was, I decided against it. Thanks for watching

[@PhantomDragonEternal]

That's cool. I understand. That color really POPS, so it would be a shame to have to cover any of it.

[@petermata5488]

yeah it should have been called the custom chevelle !

[@anthonybollini3699]

I would have used the cars Candy-O is your theme music for this that is a cool car he did a wonderful job me to the 396 SS Chevelle excellent job hey how can we send you some pears

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thank you so much. I scaled it down after the busy buildoff weekend I had Last week lol. What would you like to send me?

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Love me some Cars music!

[@anthonybollini3699]

@@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192 send me your address I'd like to send you some hers I have some red wines some other junk that I haven't you haven't worked on

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

@@anthonybollini3699 10030 Gas House pike. Frederick, MD 21701

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

@@anthonybollini3699 I was excited to find your package in the mail today ! Thank you so much for those amazing cars! I will be giving you a proper Shout out ,and Thank you on my Video I'm putting out on Wednesday. I am excited to do some restorations on them!

[@RandallRCTherapy]

Yep Yep!

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thank you very much

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

You got a new sub. I like what I see

[@CCRIGGS]

Redlines are Redlines Customs are Customs...Your Duck...Mooo"s

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thank you, I think.....

[@MiamiMillionaire]

Very Nice 👍

[@hodgeshotwheelsanddiecast5192]

Thank you very much